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Cancer Center News Archives

Explore past news and stories from the UVM Cancer Center.

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2025: UVM Cancer Center and UVM Children's Hospital Offer Promising Pediatric Oncology Trial

From 2019 to 2024, the UVM Cancer Center and UVM Children’s Hospital hosted a trial to investigate whether chemotherapy paired with an immunotherapy treatment could improve outcomes for children diagnosed with standard-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

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2025: UVM Cancer Center and UVM Children's Hospital Offer Promising Pediatric Oncology Trial

From 2019 to 2024, the UVM Cancer Center and UVM Children’s Hospital hosted a trial to investigate whether chemotherapy paired with an immunotherapy treatment could improve outcomes for children diagnosed with standard-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

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2025

12/16/2025

UVM Cancer Center Announces 2026 Pilot and Award Grantees

11/25/2025

Honoring Vermont’s Caregivers: The Unseen Backbone of Cancer Care

10/22/2025

Graduate Trainee, Maggie Trout, Receives ChadTough Defeat DIPG 2025 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

10/20/2025

New Publication Reveals Mechanical Forces Drive Stem Cell Differentiation

10/17/2025

Meet Tom Ahern, PhD, MPH: One of the UVMCC’s Breast Cancer Researchers

10/14/2025

Meet the New Cancer Host and Environment Member Jeremy Logue, PhD

10/13/2025

New Grant Enables Researchers to Explore the Impact of Remotely Delivered Exercise Programs for Cancer Patients

09/29/2025

The Power of Collaboration – Novel Model System to Study Lung Cancer Cachexia

09/22/2025

UVM Cancer Center’s 28th Annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference Showcases ‘The Leading Edge of Cancer Care’

09/10/2025

How Do We Engage Rural Cancer Survivors in Research?

09/04/2025

Funding the Science That Finds a Cure: How Philanthropy Supports a Novel Treatment for Mesothelioma

09/03/2025

Marlene’s Cardinals: One Vermont Artist’s Fight Against Glioblastoma

08/28/2025

When Lung Screening Saves Lives: One Patient’s Story

08/22/2025

Rurality Does Not Impact Outcomes of Glioblastoma Patients Diagnosed at UVMMC

07/31/2025

UVM Cancer Center Brings Free Skin Checks to Rural Vermont

07/31/2025

Bhurosy’s Study Reveals Food Insecurity Among Young Adult Cancer Survivors

07/30/2025

Meet the UVM Cancer Center's 2025 Juckett Summer Fellows

07/28/2025

Novel Mechanism for ER Movement Revealed in New Publication by John Salogiannis, PhD and Trainee Allison Langley

07/28/2025

Trip's Rip: How One Cancer Center Patient's Family Honors His Memory

07/24/2025

Postdoctoral Trainee Deena Snoke, Ph.D., Receives Prestigious NIH Pathway to Independence Award

07/23/2025

Cancer Center Members Awarded American Cancer Society Research Grants

07/02/2025

UVM Cancer Center Trainee Petra Kapsalis Finds Success in the Lab and on the Field

06/29/2025

UVM Cancer Center Hosts Inaugural Rural Health and Cancer Conference 

06/11/2025

UVM Cancer Center Pilot Study to Investigate Vermonter’s High Skin Cancer Risk

06/05/2025

New Publication Reveals Gene Expression Changes Upon Loss of the Cancer Implicated Protein Miro1

05/28/2025

It's Sun Safety Season: Protect Yourself Against Cancer-causing Sun Exposure

05/27/2025

Trainee Spotlight: Thomas Khodadad, UVM Cancer Center ‘Cancer Host and Environment’ Research Program

05/20/2025

UVM Cancer Center and Vermont Lake Monsters “Dig In” Against Cancer

05/16/2025

Brian Sprague, PhD, awarded a University Scholars Award

05/15/2025

What’s It Like to Be on a Cancer Clinical Trial? We Asked a Patient. 

05/15/2025

New Article in The American Journal of Nursing Distinguishes Between Human Subjects Research and Quality Improvement Projects

05/15/2025

Q&A with "Master Trialist" Alissa Thomas, M.D.

05/12/2025

A New Expert Review Provides Guidelines for Use of PSMA PET Scans for Prostate Cancer

05/02/2025

The Cancer Center’s Outreach and Education Van Launches in Montpelier

04/28/2025

“SciArt”: Can Art Connect Us to Cancer Science?

04/18/2025

Wrap-up: 2025 Careers in Cancer Day

04/04/2025

UVM Cancer Center Announces 2025 Pilot and Pre-Pilot Award Grantees

04/02/2025

New Publication Raises Awareness for the Advantages and Potential Harms of AI Analyses of Clinical Visits

04/01/2025

Reem Aboushousha, PhD, Receives Parker B. Fellowship to Study the Role of GSTP in Chemotherapy Resistance

03/29/2025

Q & A: Steve Lidofsky, MD, PhD on preventing liver cancer

03/24/2025

Meet the new UVM Cancer Center ‘Cancer Host and Environment’ Member — Kaitlin McCreery, Ph.D.

03/24/2025

Q&A With Chris Anker, M.D., on Colorectal Cancer  

03/05/2025

Rally Against Cancer Winter 2025

02/21/2025

Broad panel genetic testing in patients with cancer finds unexpected variants

02/20/2025

Multiple factors impact oxidation-induced mutational landscapes

02/20/2025

Klemperer Recognized For Nicotine and Tobacco Research

02/05/2025

Are Supplements Safe? An Integrative Oncology Expert Weighs In.

02/05/2025

In a New Publication, the Majumdar Lab Shows Vaccine Inflammatory Responses can be Tailored for Specific Therapeutic Purpose

01/31/2025

Meet the new UVM Cancer Center 'Cancer Cell' Member – John Salogiannis, PhD

02/05/2025

Skin Checks for South Burlington Firefighters

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2024: Novel therapy uncovered at the University of Vermont Cancer Center enters Phase 2 Clinical Study

Since 2017, the Cunniff Lab at the University of Vermont (UVM) Cancer Center with support from industry partner, RS Oncology, has been making significant strides to launch a new therapy for the treatment of mesothelioma.

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2024

12/19/2024

Trishnee Bhurosy, PhD Receives Two Academic Awards

12/11/2024

New Study: Cumulative-Risk Model Documents Persistent Disparities in Adolescent Cigarette Smoking

11/20/2024

The Reagan Lab is Connecting the Dots Between Obesity and Multiple Myeloma

11/13/2024

New work by Maija Reblin, PhD, highlights the need for increased caregiver support

11/12/2024

New Publications from Greenblatt and Nadeau Advance Interpretation of Genetic Variants of Unknown Significance

11/01/2024

UVM Cancer Center Lung Screening Up 33% Overall, but Only 10% of High Risk Vermonters Are Being Screened

10/28/2024

Ahern Receives NCI R01 to Develop a Genetic Panel Which Will Identify Patients at High Risk for Late Breast Cancer Recurrence

10/18/2024

New Grant to Identify Therapeutic Targets for Osteosarcoma Funded

10/10/2024

Innovative Program Aims to Diversify Cancer Center Leadership

10/08/2024

Meet the new UVM Cancer Center Cancer Host and Environment Members

09/24/2024

New grant will assess the impact of nicotine-limiting policies on dual users of cigarettes and e-cigarettes

09/19/2024

Jessica Heath, MD appointed Associate Director for Clinical and Translational Research

09/13/2024

Spotlight: Christine Vatovec, PhD

09/12/2024

Cancer Center Trainee Conducts Policy Relevant Tobacco Research

09/11/2024

New Study in Radiology Shows Benefit of Ultrasound Screening for Some Women with Dense Breasts

09/06/2024

UVM Cancer Center Partners with Community Health Centers to Boost Breast Cancer Screenings for Nepali Women

09/05/2024

Adrianzen-Herrera, Mori, and Scharnetzki Receive ACS Institutional Research Grant

08/29/2024

UVM Cancer Center Trainee Spotlight—Deena Snoke, Ph.D.

08/14/2024

Society for Redox Biology and Medicine elects UVM Cancer Center Members as President-Elect and Council Member

08/05/2024

Molly Barry, MD appointed Women’s Health and Cancer Conference Executive Director

08/05/2024

Honor a Caregiver: Annual Program Launches

07/23/2024

Chris Holmes, M.D., Ph.D. appointed Medical Director for Cancer Clinical Programs at the UVM Health Network

07/17/2024

Nataniel H. Lester-Coll, M.D., Appointed Chief of Radiation Oncology

07/17/2024

UVM Cancer Center Trainees Successfully Defend PhD Dissertations

07/16/2024

New Clinical Trial for Liver Cancer Screening Available at UVM Medical Center

07/15/2024

UVM Cancer Center 2024 Juckett Summer Fellows

07/03/2024

Rohit Singh, MD, Contributes to Our Understanding of Palliative Care Utilization

07/01/2024

Inaugural Award will Accelerate Cancer Clinical Trials

06/28/2024

Connections Matter: Collaborative Study Stems from Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Annual Research Day

06/18/2024

New Study Introduces Novel Methodology to Benchmark Hospitals on In-Hospital Disparities

06/17/2024

From Bench to Bedside: Positive Data from a Phase 1 Clinical Trial of RSO-021

06/11/2024

Collaboration Between Carr and Frietze Leads to Prestigious Department of Defense Impact Award

06/11/2024

One Year Later, Innovative New Cancer Treatment is Saving Lives

05/30/2024

Statewide Sunscreen Dispenser Program

05/29/2024

UVM Cancer Center and Vermont Lake Monsters “Dig In” Against Cancer

05/29/2024

IITI Awardees Announced

05/28/2024

UVMCC Cancer Population Science Announces Pilot Award Grantees

05/21/2024

Clinical Trials Awareness Day

05/02/2024

New Study Establishes How Cells May Communicate Changes in Their Environment

04/22/2024

Trishnee Bhurosy, PhD, accepted into the Inaugural Peer Review Academy of the Society of Behavioral Medicine

04/11/2024

75 Students from Five Area High Schools Learn About Careers in Cancer

04/04/2024

Cancer Center Trainees Receive Awards to Present Their Research at AACR

04/03/2024

UVM Cancer Center and Partners Distribute Free Sunscreen Dispensers

04/01/2024

Glass Secures UVM’s First NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award

03/26/2024

Larner Scientists Offer Insight into COVID-19 Vaccine Response

03/22/2024

100 member scientists attend UVM Cancer Center Scientific Retreat

02/26/2024

Innovative Program Incorporates a Dietician into Every Step of a Cancer Patient’s Journey

02/20/2024

Scott Langevin, PhD, MHA, CT(ASCP) appointed Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement

02/14/2024

Kevin Vest, MBA joins UVMCC as Network Vice President, Cancer Clinical Programs

02/08/2024

New Cancer Center Member Focuses on the Interplay between Nutrition and Cancer

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2023: New Drug Gives Quality-of-Life Boost to Cancer Patients with Deadly Blood Clots

For the five to 25 percent of cancer patients who develop a potentially fatal condition called venous thrombosis, which causes clots to form in the blood that can lodge in the lungs or other vital organs, the anxiety of a cancer diagnosis comes with an unpleasant added chore — the need to...

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2023

12/19/2023

Study Indicates Some Cancer Treatments Increase the Abundance of a Protein Known to Cause Tumor Mutations

12/13/2023

UVM Cancer Center Announces 2023 Pilot Project Grantees

12/11/2023

Food As Medicine: Students’ Pilot Course Gets Peers Cooking

12/05/2023

Katie Queen, Ph.D. joins UVM Cancer Center

11/13/2023

Lung Cancer News for November, National Lung Cancer Awareness Month

11/08/2023

Covering Pain: Integrative Treatment Accessible to More Vermonters

10/16/2023

UVMCC partners with Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation

09/25/2023

26th Annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference

09/13/2023

New study in Science Advances reveals insights into the regulation of glutathione

09/12/2023

Summer Scholars: Medical Students Dive Into Research

09/12/2023

Nataniel Lester-Coll, MD presents at first-ever ASTRO "Refresher" meeting in Latin America

08/30/2023

The Butler Foundation surpasses $80,000 in gifts to support Mesothelioma Research at the University of Vermont Cancer Center

08/25/2023

Hope Lodge: A Home Away From Home for UVM Cancer Patients

08/08/2023

Lady Glaucomflecken to Speak at 2023 Women’s Health and Cancer Conference

08/03/2023

Cunniff Presents New Cancer Research at iMig Conference

06/28/2023

Kanayo Ikeh Named UVM Cancer Center Juckett Scholar

06/22/2023

Patriot Star’s Foundation Makes Grants Available to New England Cancer Patients with Financial Need

05/31/2023

UVM Cancer Center and Vermont Lake Monsters Team Up to Strike Out Skin Cancer

05/10/2023

On the Forefront of Offering Rectal Cancer Clinical Trials

05/10/2023

UVMCC and NCI investigators discover breast cancer compromises the human histone gene landscape

04/18/2023

Seward Lab Lands Two-Year National Cancer Institute R21 Grant

04/12/2023

UVM Cancer Center members and trainees attend ASCO 2023

04/07/2023

UVM Cancer Center Members Identify a Unique Population of Cells in Breast Cancer Patients

03/30/2023

NBC5 Reports on Study by Nowak, Sprague, et al. Showing Drop in Breast Cancer Screenings

03/29/2023

Study Finds Revised Mammography Guidelines May Have Impacted Drop in Screenings

03/27/2023

Alan Howe Appointed Associate Director of Cancer Research, Training, and Education

03/29/2025

Q & A: Steve Lidofsky, MD, PhD on preventing liver cancer

02/22/2023

UVM Cancer Center Offers Innovative New Cancer Treatment

02/21/2023

Holcombe Named Associate Dean for Cancer Programs at UVM Larner College of Medicine

01/31/2023

Weaver & Lester-Coll Examine Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on Liver Cancer Patients

01/26/2023

UVM Cancer Center Welcomes Two New Colleagues: Kate Tracy and Christa Varnadoe

01/20/2023

Rally Against Cancer Winter 2023

01/12/2023

New study explores race in the association of cytopenia and cancer death

01/12/2023

Charlotte News Lauds Janssen-Heininger as a ‘Humble Superstar’

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2022: Study Finds Exposure to Phthalates May Increase Children's Cancer Risk

In a first-of-its-kind study, research from the University of Vermont Cancer Center has linked phthalates, commonly called the “everywhere chemical,” to higher incidence of specific childhood cancers.

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2022: Study Finds Exposure to Phthalates May Increase Children's Cancer Risk

In a first-of-its-kind study, research from the University of Vermont Cancer Center has linked phthalates, commonly called the “everywhere chemical,” to higher incidence of specific childhood cancers.

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2022

12/22/2022

UVM’s Redox Researchers Collaborate with Scholars at Japan’s Tohoku University

12/02/2022

Lian, Stein, and Cushman Ranked Among Top Scientists in U.S.

11/30/2022

The Butler Family Foundation Fund for Cancer Research supports The Cunniff Lab in effort to discover and advance treatments for malignant mesothelioma

11/19/2022

Silver Linings: Remotely delivered exercise to older rural cancer survivors shows improved physical health

11/19/2022

Inaugural Juckett Scholars Launch Cancer Care Delivery Studies

11/19/2022

$25,000 in seed funding awarded for “Spatialomics and Precision Medicine Pipeline” at UVM Cancer Center Scientific Retreat

11/17/2022

Innovative Approaches Hold Promise for Improving Rural Health Across Region

11/09/2022

Cancer Center's Sajisevi & Colleagues Find Most Thyroid Cancers Detected in Asymptomatic Patients

11/08/2022

Dittus, Sikorski Comment on UVM Cancer Center Being Named Health.com’s Innovative Hospital Award Winner for 2022

10/31/2022

Janssen-Heininger Probes Oxygen's Mysteries to Find Lung Disease Treatments

10/28/2022

Celebrating Larner’s Newest Facility: The Firestone Medical Research Building

10/27/2022

“Convergence” Event Brings Global Cancer Treatment Experts, Local Students to Campus

10/27/2022

NBC5 Covers Cancer Convergence Conference, Quotes Holcombe

10/25/2022

Janssen-Heininger Awarded Grant to Study Chemo-Resistant Tumors, VermontBiz Reports

09/27/2022

Women’s Health and Cancer Conference to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

09/15/2022

Cancer Center Director Holcombe Comments on Biden 'Cancer Moonshot' on WCAX-TV

08/18/2022

New Study Shows Focused Radiation Therapy Improves Survival and Decreases Hospitalizations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient

08/15/2022

UVM Cancer Center Inaugural Juckett Scholar investigates novel Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Pathway

08/15/2022

Newest Service for Cancer In-Patients? A Very Old Chinese Art

07/31/2022

Telegraph Quotes King on ‘Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer’ Program

07/24/2022

$100,000 gift from the UVM Medical Center Auxiliary, Inc. will support the Breast Cancer Integrative Oncology Program

07/11/2022

Zigmund Comments on Lung Cancer Screening in Conjunction with UVM & Dartmouth Cancer Centers’ Announcement on NBC5

07/07/2022

UVM, Dartmouth, VTAAC Launch Public Education Program Promoting Early Detection of Lung Cancer

07/06/2022

Study First to Show Benefit of 3D Mammography in Reducing Late-stage Breast Cancer

06/29/2022

Brundage Invested as Green & Gold Professor in Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

06/23/2022

New Osher Center for Integrative Health to Benefit UVM Cancer Center Patients

06/17/2022

Breast Cancer Phase III Clinical Trial Now Open at UVM Cancer Center

05/24/2022

Clinical study looks at blood test to predict clotting risk in cancer patients

05/17/2022

Janssen-Heininger Honored as University Distinguished Professor

05/02/2022

“Invisible Patients” – Research Reveals Tips for Caregivers

04/14/2022

UVM Cancer Center announces Summer Student Fellowships in Cancer Research Awardees

03/04/2022

UVM Cancer Center researchers receive Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society (NNECOS) Collaborative Research Grant to study “Immunobrain”

02/28/2022

New Study Highlights Colorectal Cancer Treatments that Improve Patients' Quality of Life

02/16/2022

UVM Cancer Researcher Frances Carr Elected AAAS Fellow

01/26/2022

Summer Student Research Program Trains Next Generation of Cancer Scientists

01/26/2022

Maija Reblin, Ph.D. appointed co-leader for the UVM Cancer Center’s Cancer Control and Population Health Sciences program

01/18/2022

UVM Cancer Center Investigators Publish the Breast Pre-Cancer Atlas

01/18/2022

Now Enrolling: Clinical Trial Tests Effectiveness of Online Strength Training in Slowing Muscle Wasting in Lung Cancer Patients

01/13/2022

Adrianzen Herrera Invested as Early Career Green & Gold Professor of Medicine

01/12/2022

UVM Cancer Center Announces 2021 Pilot Project Grantees

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2021: UVM Invests Holcombe as Inaugural J. Walter Juckett Chair in Cancer Research

With $3 million in support from a longtime major supporter of the University of Vermont Cancer Center, Randall F. Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., was invested as the inaugural J. Walter Juckett Chair in Cancer Research in the Larner College of Medicine on November 3.

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2021

11/23/2021

UVM Researchers Help Identify Impact of COVID-caused Delays in Breast Cancer Screening

10/29/2021

UVM Cancer Center Research Leads to First-of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial of Mesothelioma Treatment

10/18/2021

Strotmeyer and Lemon Recognized with 2021 UVM Our Common Ground Awards

09/28/2021

24th Annual Women's Health & Cancer Conference Takes Place Virtually Oct. 1

09/21/2021

Kolb Receives NCI Grant to Develop Treatment for Chemo-Induced Nerve Damage

08/31/2021

FDA approval of 3rd doses of COVID-19 Vaccines

08/25/2021

Colchester's Vernal Biosciences Manufactures the mRNA That’s Revolutionizing Medicine

08/25/2021

Holcombe Quoted in Seven Days Article on Local mRNA Manufacturer

08/21/2021

Radiation oncology 2.0

06/23/2021

'They Saved My Life': Cancer Center Clinical Trials Offer Hope to Vermont Patients

06/09/2021

UVM Students Contribute to Groundbreaking Cancer Research

05/26/2021

Cancer Center Clinical Trial Targets Lung Tumors

05/12/2021

From Making Memes to Banning Menthol: UVM Cancer Center Researchers Target Tobacco Use

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